Pyrotechny; or, The Art of Making Fireworks at Little Cost with Complete Safety and Cleanliness
Book Description
Publisher's pictorial & gilt cloth, all edges gilt, extremities rather bumped & tired with loss to the cloth, head and tail of the spine worn & a little chipped, joints a touch worn, two ink spots, white paint mark & scuffs to rear board; front hinge a little tender with binding slightly exposed, folding frontispiece loose & a little edgeworn but present, handling marks & some occ. spots. 38pp publisher's advertisements to rear, illustrated with four folding plates (one pasted to rear pastedown & with loss), six plates & vignette diagrams throughout. An interesting Victorian work on firework production, richly illustrated with examples.
Author
'Practicus'
Date
1873
Binding
Publisher's cloth
Publisher
Ward, Lock and Tyler
Condition
Fair
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